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Duncan Jarvis

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Talk Evidence - testing under the microscope and opioid prescription

I mean, reducing it by that much, that seems like an awful lot of salt you must be eating in the first place.

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Talk Evidence - testing under the microscope and opioid prescription

Well, just have that as a baseline.

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Talk Evidence - testing under the microscope and opioid prescription

So there we go.

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Talk Evidence - testing under the microscope and opioid prescription

That's a different way of interpreting a paper, perhaps with some useful advice to GPs.

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Talk Evidence - testing under the microscope and opioid prescription

Now, Helen, you've got some more useful advice for GPs about looking at test results.

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Talk Evidence - testing under the microscope and opioid prescription

It's not that surprising that something like bone mineral density, because if you think, going back to my biological... True, I forget you're a biological person.

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Talk Evidence - testing under the microscope and opioid prescription

The chemical processes going on there are fairly slow, whereas something like thyroid-stimulating hormone is a squishy gland that's responding to a lot of stuff that's going on, so they'll be much more actively going on there.

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Talk Evidence - testing under the microscope and opioid prescription

And equally, this was written with GPs in mind, but there's lots of stuff on there that were probably really useful for any clinician, anyone who's doing tests.

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Talk Evidence - testing under the microscope and opioid prescription

Oh, yes.

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Talk Evidence - testing under the microscope and opioid prescription

Great.

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Talk Evidence - testing under the microscope and opioid prescription

Well, there we go.

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Talk Evidence - testing under the microscope and opioid prescription

So you've had a bump a lot of starts and stops.

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Talk Evidence - testing under the microscope and opioid prescription

To make up for last week, we have opioids.

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Talk Evidence - testing under the microscope and opioid prescription

Start measuring yourself against what other people are doing and have a think about how often you prescribe.

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Talk Evidence - testing under the microscope and opioid prescription

We have lung cancer screening, where Carl managed to slip in... Maybe.

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Talk Evidence - testing under the microscope and opioid prescription

A maybe.

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Talk Evidence - testing under the microscope and opioid prescription

And a sneaky, you know, do do absolute numbers, but maybe do some screening.

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Talk Evidence - testing under the microscope and opioid prescription

Then on to sodium, where you can advise people to have a teaspoon of salt less.

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Talk Evidence - testing under the microscope and opioid prescription

And finally, your results may vary.

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Talk Evidence - testing under the microscope and opioid prescription

Have a look at where a test result lies within the different kinds of variation that are naturally occurring.